Businessmen on inflated salaries lecturing the rest of Britain on how to run the country are "utterly nauseating" and "being used" by the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, says today.

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Not that this is particularly hard to get right, and that the businessmen are probably more users than used. And note that this critique has now been delegated to the party that will definitely not form a government. The Guardian adds its own spin:

Cable's condemnation comes as study by the Guardian found that bosses at 10 of the largest companies to have endorsed Cameron's tax plans would be forced to take a combined £74m cut to their pay and bonus deals if they worked in the public sector, where the Conservative leader intends to impose stringent pay caps.

Good point. Except that it specifically refers to a comparison between public sector bosses and their private sector peers, rather than anyone lower down the totem pole – to the people who decide to spend their local authority’s recruitment budget in the Guardian rather than the people who execute the decision, for instance. Maybe Vince is making a head fake in that direction.